Collar-shaping machine



C. L. BRALEY.

COLLAR SHAPING MACHINE, APPLICATION FILED DEC. 2, I916- RENEWED OCT. 29. I920.

1,380,331 Patented May 31, 1921.

I I 'I in ,ui l i lo predetermined and beyond the whim of the nuns stares PATENT QFEHQE.

CHARLES L. BRALEY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN LAUNDRY MACHINERY COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

COLLAR-$HAZPING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 31, 1921.

Application filed December 2,1916, Serial No. 134,707. Renewed October 29, 1920; Serial No. 420,577.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. BRALEY, citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Shaping Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to collar shapers and particularly to that class of such devices utilized for shaping and ironing the folded edges of turned down collars.

Heretofore in devices of this type the shaping and ironing member has been arranged in a manner such that the intensity of thepressure exerted upon the folded edge of the collar was discretionary with the operator and oftentimes the pressure employed was great enough to cut or injure the fabric and there has never been any very efficient device developed whereby the pressure exerted upon the work was uniform,

operator.

The present device is one which is designed to overcome the above named difficulty and it is arranged so that the pressure upon the work is uniform, entirely mechanical and may be adjusted so that it is predetermined and is beyond the whim of the operator. v The invention may be further briefly summarized as consisting in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter set forth in the following description, drawings and claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view; Fig. 2is a rear elevation with the iron in idle position; Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the plane 3- -3, Fig. 1, but with the iron in operative position, and Fig. 1 is a portion of a side elevation.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in the drawings, 1 represents a frame of any suitable size and arrangement but having upper sills 2 upon which is secured the base 3 of the device. g

The base 3 is provided with a centrally disposed downwardly extending tubular member 4 having-a reduced portion 5 at the cap 22 which directs its flames against this lower end for a purpose to be described. The base 3 is further provided with downwardly extending guides 6, three being shown, for receiving and guiding guide rods 7 secured in the bottom of spider 8 which is nearly circular and has secured to its edge the collar-receiving flange or rim 9. This flange or rim extends for nearly an entire circle, as is usual in these devices, and it is adapted to receive the folded collar in a well known manner. At the center the spider 8 is provided with a tubular spring guide 10 extending downwardly into the tubular member f as shown. At the top the wall of the opening in the spider in linewith the tubular guide is threaded to receive a spring tension adjusting sleeve 11.

Mounted in the reduced portion 5 of the tubular member 4 is a mixing tube 12 extending out at the lower end of the reduced portion 5 and there receiving a fuel and air mixer 13. A stop collar 14 provided with a lar guide 10 andthe adjusting sleeve 11,

and above this point is bent at right angles, so that it is disposed in a horizontal plane. The outer end of this mixing tube supports the shaper or iron 17 by means of a sleeve 18 mounted on the mixing tube and connected by webs 19 to this shaper. A screw 20 passes through the sleeve 18 and into a slot; 21 in the mixing tube and provides for proper adjustment of the iron with respect to the mixing tube. The extreme end of the mixing tube'is provided with a burner iron. The shaper or iron is provided with the usual ironing portion 23 which conforms to the shape of the edge of the collar.

A handle 24 of ordinary construction is provided upon the shaper or iron.

A suitable tension device is arranged be tween the adjusting sleeve 11 and the tubular member 4 and it is in this instance a coiled spring 25 thrusting against the adjusting sleeve at the top and against a washer arranged about a shoulder in the tubular member and the annular bead 16.

From the description thus far given it will readily be seen that the shaper iron and its burner mechanism are fixed against vertical movement while the collar flange or rim is movable but yieldingly forced upward by the spring 25, the tension of which may be adjusted by the adjusting sleeve 11.

One oil: the guide rods 7 preferably eX- tends below its guide and to a point near the floor where it is connected to a "foot trea-' die 26 pivoted in a bracket 27 secured to the floor. A clevis 28 forms the connecting de vice and it may be threaded onto the threaded portion 29 and held by a nut30 for the par )OSG of adjustment.

The upward movement oi? the spider and flange or rim 9 is limited by a collar '31 fixed upon the downwardly extending guide rod 7 below its guide.

As before stated, the flange or rim 9 only extends for the greater part or a circle and the point where the flange or rim is missing is the one where the shaper or iron is to remain when not in use. At this point a bracket 32 is provided and it is mounted on the base 3. This bracket has an eye 33 to which a spring 34: is secured. end of this spring is secured to an arm 35 forming a part of a collar 36 secured to the mixing tube 12by means of a set screw 37.

The tendency of this spring is to swing the.

shaper iron and mixing tube into the position shown in Jig. l; T his tendency is utilized to hold the collar flange or rim depressed or in the dotted line position in Fig. 3, it is accomplished by a bell crank lever mounted on a pin 38 secured in the bracket and having an arm 39 adapted when in the position shown in .2 to engage the andle oi the shnper or iron and oppose its further movement by the spring An other arm 4-0 of this hell can k is connected by a link ll to the outer Nee end of the treadle lever.

in operation, the collar properly moisand 'ljoldcd is placed over the flange tened or rim when it is down, it being held in this position by the action of the spring M on the iron which is engaging the arm 89.

= h e operator then moves the iron from norof the discretion or whim of the operator.

The iron may be manipulated back and forth over the collar edge, and when 1111-- ished, theoperator depresses the treadle and releases the shaper or iron when its handle The other igement with the shaper or iron withnnitorm predetermined pressure entirely out swings around, engages the arm 39 and holds the treadle and the collar flange or rim cleprcsscd ready for another operation.

Having described my invention, 1 claim i. in a collar shaper, a collar iorm meman ironing member, means normally rendin g to produce ironing engagen'ient and pressure etween said members, a hand operated deince connected to one of said members for producing relative rotative ironing movement, and means for preventing movement of said ironing member by the operator out or a tired orbit while said members are in ironing engagement.

2. in a collar shaper, acollar form member, an ironing member, yielding means norially tending to produce ironing engagement and pressure between said members, a hand operated deviceconnected to one of said members for producing relative rotative movement, means tor preventing movement or" said ironing'member by the opera tor out of a fixed orbit while said members are in ironing engagement, and means for adjusting the pressure of said yielding HIBZLIIS.

- A collar shaper, comprising a rotatable ironing member, a collar form member, a hand operated device connected to said ironing member-tor producing rotative ironing movement, means normally tending to force a. A collar shaper, comprising a rotatable ironing membena collar form member, a hand operated device on one of said members for PIlOClllOlIlg rotative ironing movement, means normally tending to force said other n'iember into ironing engagement and pressure with said first named'member, and means for preventing movement or said ironing member by the operator out oi a lined orbit while said members are in ironing engagement. I

A collar shaper, comprising a hand operated ironing member, a collar :iorm member, means normally tending to force said term member into operative ironing relation with said ironing member, and means aflected by s d ironing member "for 0011- trolling operative and inoperative positions of said form member.

6. A collar shaper, comprising an ironing member, a collar form member, a hand operated device for moving one of said members into ironing position and in a fixed orbit during the ironing operation, and means for normally forcing the other of said members into ironing engagement with said first named member.

7 A collar shaper, comprising an iron-ing member. movable in an arc in one plane and immovable in another plane, a collar hold 111g form cooperating therewith and having yielding means whose pressure is unaifected by said ironing member for producing said vertical movement and means for adjusting the pressure of said means.

9. A collar shaper, comprising an ironing member having movement in an arc in a horizontal plane and immovable vertically, an annular collar holding form cooperating therewith and having vertical motion toward said ironing member, and a spring for producing said vertical movement.

10. A collar shaper, comprising an ironing member having movement in an arc in a horizontal plane and immovable vertically, an annular collar holding form cooperating therewith and having vertical motion toward said ironing member, a spring for producing said vertical movement and means for adjusting the pressure of said spring.

11. A collar shaper, comprising an ironing member movable in a fixed path in a horizontal plane, a collar supporting member having a portion extending along said path for holding the collar in cooperating relation with said ironing member and yielding means whose pressure is imaffected by movement of said ironing member along said path when in ironing relation with the collar for moving the collar supporting member toward the ironing member to produce ironing pressure. p

12. A collar shaper, comprising an ironing member movable in a fixed path in a horizontal plane, a collar supporting mem' her having a portion extending along said path for holding the collar in cooperating relation with said ironing member, yielding means whose pressure is unaffected by movement of said ironing member along said path when in ironing relation with the collar for moving the collar supporting member toward the ironing member to produce ironing pressure, and means: for adjusting the pressure of said yielding means.

13. In a collar shaper, frame, a collar support movably mounted therein, means normally tending to move said support upward,- a collar engaging flange carried by said support, a shaper supported to travel along said flange, means for holding said shaper against vertical movement toward said flange, means for manipulating the shaper, a spring arranged between the support and the frame for creating pressure between the flange and the shaper, and means for varying the tension of the sprin 1%. In a collar shaper, a frame, a collar support guided in said frame and vertically movable therein and having a tubular extension, a circular collar flange carried by said support, a shaper support centrally disposed with respect to said collar flange, said shaper support being swiveled at the center and held against movement toward the collar flange, a shaper carried by said shaper support, means for forcing said collar flange yieldingly toward the shaper, and means for supplying a heating medium to the shaper.

15. In a collar shaper, a frame, a collar support vertically movable in said frame, a circular collar flange carried by said sup port, a shaper support swiveled in the frame and swiveled centrally with respect to the collar flange, a shaper carried thereby, means for forcing said collar flange yieldingly into engagement with the shaper, treadle mechanism for moving the support and its collar flange away from the shaper, and means for locking the collar support and itsflange in its retracted position.

16. In a collar shaper, a frame, a collar support vertically movable in said frame, a circular collar flange carried by said support, a shaper support swiveled in the frame and swiveled centrally with respect to the collar flange, a shaper carried thereby, means for forcing said collar flange yieldingly into engagement with the shaper,

treadle mechanism for moving the support and its collar flange away from the shaper, and means adapted to be engaged by the shaper operating upon the treadle mechanism for holding the collar support and its flange in its retracted position.

17. A collar shaper, comprising an annular vertically movable collar holding form,

a cooperating iron rotatable in a horizontal plane and having an idle position, yielding means for moving said form vertically into engagement with said iron, and means whereby said iron when in idle position holds said form away from the plane of rotation of said iron. I

18. A collar shaper, comprising an annular vertically movable collar holding form having a gap, a cooperating iron rotatable in a horizontal plane, yielding means for moving said form vertically into engagement with said iron, and means whereby said iron when opposite said gap holds said form away from the plane of rotation of said iron.

19. A collar shaper, comprising an annular vertically movable collar holding form, a cooperating iron rotatable in a horizontal plane, yielding means for moving said form vertically into engagement with said iron, and cooperating means for withdrawing said form from the plane of rotation of said iron" 20. A collar shaper, comprising an annu- 5 lar vertically movable collar holding form,

a cooperating ironing member rotatable in a horizontal plane and having an idle position, yielding means for moving said form vertically into engagement with said iron,

and lever operated means for Withdrawing 10 said form from the path of movement of said ironing member, said lever operated means having a portion extending into said path whereby said iron when in idle position holds said form withdrawn from the plane 15 of rotation of said iron.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

CHARLES L. BRALEY. 

